Australia Act 1986

Australia Act 1986

1986 CHAPTER 2

An Act to give effect to a request by the Parliament and Government of the Commonwealth of Australia.

[17th February 1986]

Whereas the Parliament and Government of the Commonwealth of Australia have, with the concurrence of the States of Australia, requested and consented to the enactment of an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the terms hereinafter set forth:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—